Anonymous wrote:We tell the students to put your name on the paper for 50 percent. This teaches the kids 1/100th of an assignment equals 50%. That's called mcps math. And no it does not make sense and is part of the forever lowering the bar game

Not really. There are many ways to calculate grades.

Anonymous wrote:The highest unweighted grade is a 4.0 so obviously the poster means weighted.

MCPS essentially has a 5-point scale because most classes are at the honors level or higher (the top GPA must be very close to a 5.0- maybe a 4.9 with required non-weighted classes, but more realistically around a 4.85) so that is not actually surprising. In my kid's high school 41% have a weighted 4.0 or above. Of those, 19% have a 4.51 and above. The percentage of students who go to 4-year colleges is very similar to the number who have a 4.0 weighted and above (38%).

Anonymous wrote:Heck no.
My son works his tail off and he was given Bs with 89.4 in AP world and 89.2 in precalculus.

Of course those are in the B range but nobody has ever tipped him over to an A even if he’s crazy close!

Shhh! Stop ruining my false narrative!

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Anonymous wrote:If a student can get a 79 in one quarter and 89 in the other and still get an A, that is 100% grade inflation. You all should be worried because if your kid gets a B, it looks really really bad to the college admissions officer who is evaluating their transcript. A B in an MCPS school is like a C in the nearby private schools. Just sayin.

Sorry that would be a B and this is an extreme and unlikely example.

As a teacher, it is very common for a student to get an 89.5 (or just above) one quarter and therefore earn an A, and then get a very low B, sometimes even a 79.5 and therefore have an A on the transcript.

I don't know what colleges think about Bs on transcripts from MCPS schools, but students earning As on transcripts that mathematically were not As, is very common.

+1. All you have to do is look at the profiles mcps high schools send colleges to see how rampant grade inflation has become. Over 50% of students have a 4.0 or better. If you have any Bs you are literally in the bottom half of the class.

Share a link, not of a magnet program but an entire high school that has 50 percent with 4.0.

We tell the students to put your name on the paper for 50 percent. This teaches the kids 1/100th of an assignment equals 50%. That's called mcps math. And no it does not make sense and is part of the forever lowering the bar game

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Anonymous wrote:If a student can get a 79 in one quarter and 89 in the other and still get an A, that is 100% grade inflation. You all should be worried because if your kid gets a B, it looks really really bad to the college admissions officer who is evaluating their transcript. A B in an MCPS school is like a C in the nearby private schools. Just sayin.

Sorry that would be a B and this is an extreme and unlikely example.

As a teacher, it is very common for a student to get an 89.5 (or just above) one quarter and therefore earn an A, and then get a very low B, sometimes even a 79.5 and therefore have an A on the transcript.

I don't know what colleges think about Bs on transcripts from MCPS schools, but students earning As on transcripts that mathematically were not As, is very common.

You would know that hardly happens in reality if you were a teacher.

I get that the crazy RWNJs love this narrative but it's not more likely than anything else.

The highest unweighted grade is a 4.0 so obviously the poster means weighted.

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Anonymous wrote:If a student can get a 79 in one quarter and 89 in the other and still get an A, that is 100% grade inflation. You all should be worried because if your kid gets a B, it looks really really bad to the college admissions officer who is evaluating their transcript. A B in an MCPS school is like a C in the nearby private schools. Just sayin.

Sorry that would be a B and this is an extreme and unlikely example.

As a teacher, it is very common for a student to get an 89.5 (or just above) one quarter and therefore earn an A, and then get a very low B, sometimes even a 79.5 and therefore have an A on the transcript.

I don't know what colleges think about Bs on transcripts from MCPS schools, but students earning As on transcripts that mathematically were not As, is very common.

+1. All you have to do is look at the profiles mcps high schools send colleges to see how rampant grade inflation has become. Over 50% of students have a 4.0 or better. If you have any Bs you are literally in the bottom half of the class.

50% over a 4.0 weighted or unweighted?

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Anonymous wrote:If a student can get a 79 in one quarter and 89 in the other and still get an A, that is 100% grade inflation. You all should be worried because if your kid gets a B, it looks really really bad to the college admissions officer who is evaluating their transcript. A B in an MCPS school is like a C in the nearby private schools. Just sayin.

Sorry that would be a B and this is an extreme and unlikely example.

As a teacher, it is very common for a student to get an 89.5 (or just above) one quarter and therefore earn an A, and then get a very low B, sometimes even a 79.5 and therefore have an A on the transcript.

I don't know what colleges think about Bs on transcripts from MCPS schools, but students earning As on transcripts that mathematically were not As, is very common.

+1. All you have to do is look at the profiles mcps high schools send colleges to see how rampant grade inflation has become. Over 50% of students have a 4.0 or better. If you have any Bs you are literally in the bottom half of the class.

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Anonymous wrote:If a student can get a 79 in one quarter and 89 in the other and still get an A, that is 100% grade inflation. You all should be worried because if your kid gets a B, it looks really really bad to the college admissions officer who is evaluating their transcript. A B in an MCPS school is like a C in the nearby private schools. Just sayin.

Sorry that would be a B and this is an extreme and unlikely example.

As a teacher, it is very common for a student to get an 89.5 (or just above) one quarter and therefore earn an A, and then get a very low B, sometimes even a 79.5 and therefore have an A on the transcript.

I don't know what colleges think about Bs on transcripts from MCPS schools, but students earning As on transcripts that mathematically were not As, is very common.

They are mathematically As, just not the mathematics you want MCPS to use. So sorry.

Heck no.
My son works his tail off and he was given Bs with 89.4 in AP world and 89.2 in precalculus.

Of course those are in the B range but nobody has ever tipped him over to an A even if he’s crazy close!

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Anonymous wrote:DC attends MCPS high school and we feel they are not learning much, but get excellent grades. Do others have the impression schools are extremely lenient with grading? I am worried MCPS students will not be prepared for college if teachers are handing out easy As. Am I off base here?

I teach in a title 1 middle school. I have been asked to commit grade fraud on more than one occasion by administrators. I think that is a common scenario in MCPS.

I call BS

Anonymous wrote:DC attends MCPS high school and we feel they are not learning much, but get excellent grades. Do others have the impression schools are extremely lenient with grading? I am worried MCPS students will not be prepared for college if teachers are handing out easy As. Am I off base here?

I teach in a title 1 middle school. I have been asked to commit grade fraud on more than one occasion by administrators. I think that is a common scenario in MCPS.

Anonymous wrote:DC attends MCPS high school and we feel they are not learning much, but get excellent grades. Do others have the impression schools are extremely lenient with grading? I am worried MCPS students will not be prepared for college if teachers are handing out easy As. Am I off base here?

You are off base. Can’t even tell what you would possibly base this bizarre, invalid “feeling” on.

Don’t be one of those parents who think you know better than actual educators.

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Anonymous wrote:If a student can get a 79 in one quarter and 89 in the other and still get an A, that is 100% grade inflation. You all should be worried because if your kid gets a B, it looks really really bad to the college admissions officer who is evaluating their transcript. A B in an MCPS school is like a C in the nearby private schools. Just sayin.

Sorry that would be a B and this is an extreme and unlikely example.

As a teacher, it is very common for a student to get an 89.5 (or just above) one quarter and therefore earn an A, and then get a very low B, sometimes even a 79.5 and therefore have an A on the transcript.

I don't know what colleges think about Bs on transcripts from MCPS schools, but students earning As on transcripts that mathematically were not As, is very common.

You would know that hardly happens in reality if you were a teacher.